Radiator.



C. E. SAPPORD.

RADIATOR.

APPLICATION F; ,3!) MAR. 9, 1907.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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C. E. SAFFORD.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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' CLARENCE E. SAFFORD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

RADIATOR.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed. March 9, 1907. Serial No. 361,46l.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CLARENCE E. Ssrronn, residing at Buffalo, in the county of .Erie and State of New. York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Hadiators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to inmrovements in radiators generally but is especially designed for taking the place of the devices of this character as applied to motor vehicles for cooling the Water in the circulating system of the engine.

More specifically the invention contemplates a radiator composed of sections built up one upon the other and of a construction .in cross section such thatthe rush of air caused by the movement of the vehicle will pass between the sections and in its passage will be battled back and forth against the faces of the sections so as to engage the greatest possible amount of radiating surface and thereby give the device the greatest pos ible eliiciency.

it is also a feature of this invention to deliver the water to the sections in a manner such. that it spreads from the center thereof to the ends and then is brought back to the center again in the same section ready for delivery to the next and so on, thereby becoming completely cooled.

ilinother important feature of the'invention is the arrangement of the parts in a manner such that when the vehicle is standing cool air will be delivered from under the same to the radiating sections without being nixed with heated air from the engines.

Still further the invention contemplates the construction of a radiator for use in connection with motor vehicles and arranged so that it may be taken apart readily and the several sections repaired or replaced by others.

Other features of the invention are shown in the connection of the radiator sections one with the other.

The invention may be further briefly summarized as consisting in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth in the following description, drawings and claims.

tefcrring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved radiator applied to the hood of a motor vehicle, Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section showing the view of portions of theradiator through the tanks and the radiator sections, Fig. l: is a top plan view of a radiator section. Fig. 5 is an edge view thereof and Fig. 6 is a view upon the line 6-6 of Fig. l looking to the left.

In carrying out my invention any preferred form and construction of parts may be employed but I have shown one form in the drawings which meets the requirements with great eflicieucy and in such embodiment 1 represents a supporting frame for the radiator adapted to be secured to the frame of the vehicle in any suitable manner and it is preferably constructed with a lower tank 2- adapted to receive the water from the radiator. Suitable side upright members 3 support the top 4 of the radiator and they are provided with side plates 3. The tank 2 is connected by a pipe with the eng ne.

The upper part at of the radiator is in the form of a tank 6 which extends back further than the other parts, so as to give sufl'icient capacity to the same. A pipe 7 leads from the tank to the engine. Just over the r; diator the bottom 8 of the tank 6 is corrugated from one end to the other, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to cooperate with the radiating sections to be described and it is provided with a nipple struck up from the metal and forming a connection between the tank and the first radiating section. In practice it has been found coi'ivenicnt to use one of the plates of the radiating sec tions as the bottom of the upper *ater tank. The ends of the upper portion 'r are pr0- vided with recesses 10, which receives the side members 3 of the radiator. and suitable bolts lfl extend froin the top of the ra diator through to the bottom for holding the same together and for clamping the radiating sections one against the. other. The side plates 3 of the side members 3 extend out to the rear as far as the back of the tank i G and these side plates, together with the back of the tank serve to support a plate 12 which forum a flue or passage way in the rear of the radiator for directing the air passing therclhrough underneath the car away from the engine and at the same time serves as a suitable means for furnishing cool air to the radiator from under the vehicle when standing. This construction center showing the connections between the U also prevents the heated air from the engines I This sleeve is provided with a head 2? near coming in contact with the radiator. each end. for engagement on the inside of The radiating sections are preferably each plate and the outer edge at each end of made up of plates 13 which are pressed into i the sleeve is spun. over, as shown in Fig. '6, to

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radiating section, and is located centrally 1s provlded w1th a top 2, which is s m lar between the ends of the radiating section to the lower plate of one of the radiatlrcj whereby when water is delivered through sections, whereby it will cooperate with th am said opening it will travel from the center in carrying out the invention already set toward each end of the radiator section forth. 9

th h thr of th l it di l passage As the clrculating water is delivered to the ways where, by reason of the transverse pasupper tank above the engine it passes down sage ways already described, it will be led into the first radiating section in the rear as to the remaining three longitudinal passage shown and t sp ea o ough ee of 00 ways in the same radiating sections. This the longitudinal passages to either end of the 1 same construction and the direction of travel first radiating section Where it passes forward of the water prevails in all of the radiating to the remaining three radiating sections sections. The opening is formed by stri-kand then is delivered .at the center to the ing the metal of the plate at the opening and next radiating section in the front of the 05 40 then forming an inwardly projecting nipple radiator and in this manner continues to cir- 18. The lower plate of each radiating see culate until it reaches the lower tank from 'tion is preferably provided with an opening whence it is drawn by any suitable mea 19 formed by striking up the metal of the not shown and delivered to the engine ag .ii. plate to form a nipple 20, which fits snugly In its passage through the radiating sections within the nipple 18 and thus forms a conthe heat unit which has been transmitted to 1 nection between the plate of one section and the water by the engine is radiated out into the plate of the other, or in fact between one the air which passes through the zi -zag passection and the other. A shoulder 21 is sages already described and impinges against formed about the base of the nipple 20 for practically all of the radiating. surfaces of 15 the purpose of spacing one radiating section each of the sections. The heat which is then 1 from the other, and a suitable boss 22 is proincorporated in the air is conveyed by the Vided in the upper plate opposite to the flue or the deflecting plate under the car and opening in the lower plate, whereby when away from the engine. Likewise any dust the radiating sections are connected together or dirt coming from the road and passing 2O and pressure is brought to bear upon them, through the radiator is kept away from the 1 the coupling nipples of one section may be machinery. (hen the car is standing the nipples OI the aouacent and lower plates of each ire secured together by 2 im 23 which envelops a snug fit and prevents point. Each of the radiortions 24 provided with neatlii' ihe radiziting sectioris creates a draft 1n the fine and furnishes cool air from under the car to the radiator and does not permit the heated air from the engine to act upon the sections.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. In a radiator, in combination, means g for supplying the liquid to be cooled and a d to receive a sleeveflfi. l plurality of radiating sections having corru 130 ooanza gations on both sides thereof arranged to form separated tubular passageways within the same and suitable passageways for currents of air between tlle sections.

:3. in a radiator, in combination, a pluralit v of radiating sections adapted to receive at their central points longitudinally and distribute toward the ends and to discharge at their central point longitudinally means for supplying the liquid'to be cooled to said ra diator and means whereby the air currents are directed against the radiatiI-ig surfaces in passing through the device.

3. In a radiator. in combination, means for supplying the liquid to be cooled. at plurality of radiating sections provided with corrugations adapted to form zig-zae' passages through the radiator, means tor delivering such liquid to the center of each section longitudinally and permitting it to distribute toward the ends thereof, means for discharging the liquid at the central point of each section longitudinally, and means for curing said sections together.

l. in a radiator, in combination, a suitable frame work therefor, a plurality of radiating sections having longitudinal passages for the liquid to be cooled, in ans whereby liquid to be cooled may be delivered at substantially the central point of each section and to one or more of said passages, means at the ends of said passages whereby the liquid therefrom may be delivered to the remaining passage or passages, means whereby the liquid from such remaining passages may be dis charged at substantially the central point of the radiating section, and means for securing such radiating sections in the frame work.

In a radiator, in combination, av frame, means for supplying a liquid to be cooled, a plurality of radiating sections, each having longitudinal corrugations forming internal passages for the liquidto be cooled, a suitable opening adapted to communicate with one or more of said passages at the central point of the section, transverse passages for conveying the liquid from those in communication with the supply opening to the remaining passage or passages in the same section and a suitable opening for the discharge and arranged at stbstantially the central point of the section, suitable cormect'ions be tween the (lischarge of one section and the inlet of the other. and means for holding said sections together.

(3. In a radiator, in combination, a suitable frame work. means for supplying the liquid to be cooled. a plurality of radiating sections each having longitudinal corrugationson the sides thereof and adapted to form passages within the same for the liquid, an inlet nipple at substantially the central point of each section and adapted to commnn'rate with one or more of said passages, transversely disposed passages for delivering the liquid from the same to the remaining passage or passages in the same section and a discharge nipple communicating with the remaining passages, said sections being arranged onc abo\'e the other and said nipples being ar ranged so that the discharge nipple of one section takes in the inlet nipple ol' the other and means lor holding said sect ltltl together.

7. A radiator section having corrugations on either side thereof and adapted to form longitudinal passages and lo al.-o present corrugated surfaces on the outside. trans verse passages establishing (Ulllllllllllttllltlll between all of said longitudinal passages. an inlet opening communicating with a portion of said longitudinal passages and a discharge opening communicating with the remainder.

S. A radiator section baring corrugated sides on the interior and exterior thereby forming longitudinal passages within the same, transverse passages establishing communication between all of said longitudinal passages at the ends of the radiating sections, an opening communicating with a portion of the passages at substantially the central point of the section, a. male nipple about said opening, an opening communicating with the remaining longitudinal passages, and a female nipple about said opening.

.9. A radiating section composed of a pair of plates having corresponding longitudinal arranged corrugations adapted to form two or more internal longitudinal passages, transversely arranged corrugations for establishing a passage way within the section and between the longitudinal passages at both ends, thereof, an opening in one of said plates and connnunieating with at least one of said 1011- gitudinal passages, a male nipple about said opening, an opening in the other plate communicating with the remaining longitudinal passage or passages, and a female nipple about said opening;

10. In a motor vehicle, in combination, a hood. a radiator carried thereby ancl means for deflecting the air passing through said radiator out of said hood and away from the machinery therein.

11. In a motor vehicle, in combination, a hood, a radiator mounted .in the front thereof, and a shield in the rear of said radiator for deflecting the air passing through the same out of said hood.

12. ln a motor vehicle, in con'ibination. a hood, a radiator and a flue formed in the rear of said radiator for directing the air passing through the same out. of said hood. 13. In a motor vehicle, in combination. a hood, a radiator mounted in the front. of the same and a deflecting shield carried by said radiator in the rear thereof and spaced at a distance therefrom for directing the air passing through said radiator out of the hood.

14. Tu a radiator for motor vehicles, in combination. and a suitable fine in the rear of said radiator for directing the air passing through the same under the vehicle when moving and for supplying cool air for the same from under the vehicle when standing. 15. In niotorvehicles in combination, a radiator, and a flue extending from the top of said radiator down in the rear of the same to a point below the car for directing the air passing through the radiator under the car and for supplying cool air to the radiator when the car is standing.

'16. In a motor vehicle, in combination, a

radiator, means for supplying a circulating water thereto, a plurality of corrugated radiating sections adapted to receive the water, said corrugated sections formlng -z1g zag passages through the radiator, and a flue in the rear of said radiator and extending from the top of said radiator to' a point below the car for supplying cool air to the,

radiator when the vehicle is standing.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature Witnesses:

RAE VVEIss, B. W. BROOKETT. 

